The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03

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TO several of their acquaintance. which cir
cumstance finally led to their arrest.
AT Syracuse last Saturday evening as
Masters John Saunders and Willie McRae
were in close pursuit of a chicken on the
premises of w. r. Saunders they came upon
a large rattlesnake coiled up under lanta
mia bush. This put a sudden stop to the
chicken chase, and l.. j. Saunders rushed to
the front and dispatched the monster with
club. His head was SO mangled that it was
found necessary. to cut it off. After the
snake was skinned and stuffed he measured
z feet and inches without the head in
length, and II inches around the largest
part. He had eleven perfect rattles, and
fragment of another showed where some
had been broken Off
There was considerable excitement at
Concord on Saturday night last, caused by
a mad dog. The dog was first noticed sew
eral miles below there, and parties followed
him, trying to kill him. but failed until par
ties from town followed him about one-half
mile above there and succeeded in killing
him. When the dog came into town he
found several cattle lying in the street, near
the Baptist church, and, attacking them,
succeeded in biting two of them before his
pursuers got close enough to shoot at him.
The dog crossed the Ocklockonee river at
the iron bridge about 4 O'Clock in the after
noon. He attacked and was known to have
bitten several dogs along the route, all of
which have since been killed.
A Key West negro who had the yellow
fever at Egmont Key, after the usual quar-
antine delays, came up to lamp last week
with bag and baggage, consisting of mat
tress and some bed clothes. The negro was
eetirely over the fever, but was weak when
he arrived, and the news soon spread that
he had the yellow fever, and quite panic
was created for a WHILE but it soon quieted
down when the facts were learned. The
Mayor, at the suggestion of the City Physi-
clan, had the effects of the negro burned.
Inasniuch as the mattress and bedclothes
had been used by the negro while he was
sick, and were consequently infected,
the quarantine authorities should not have
allowed them to have been brought in.
Thursday afternoon H. T. Graves, mail
transfer clerk, i'll company with Mr.. Low
cry, car inspector Of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway, found in mail car ll2,
train "a, registered package lying loose
on the floor. 1t contained about $500 and
was dated Aug. 30, bearing register num-
Der 1874, Baltimore, Md, to Blackshear,
Ga Register Clerk Thomas Gagahan was
in charge of the car, and it was through his
negligence that the package was lost. This
Tnomrs Gagahan is the man whose case
has recently been cited in attacks upon the
Florida postal system as offering an illustra-
ton of most competent postal clerk under
a Republican administration, who is I'M
able to secure a position by reason of his
politics, and is obliged to ''sub" as regis
ter clerk,
Pensacola Adudnce- Gazette: The first
outside parties to put in for the regatta are
Messrs Cottrell & Finlayson, of Cedar
Keys, who recently wrote to Capt. Chipley
as follows: Son seeing notice of the pro
posed regatta, we went to work having
yacht built, % feet keel, and to cost 81, 500.
Please write full particulars, for we will
have several yachts from our port to enter
the race. Hoping to hear particulars re-
garding the race, we reman yours very truly,
Cottrell & Finlayson.n Capt. Chipley re-
piled that "the details of the regatta will
not be fixed until September when the COM
mittee will hold its first meeting, but it is
probable that $1,000 prize will be offered
to schooner rugged yachts, and $500 to
sloop-rigged, for race of say twenty miles
to windward, time allowance to be I'm Ter
rules of New York Yacht Club. Other
prizes will. be offered for other contests, and
of which will write later"
On Aug. Is the steamer Ella D. left PEN
sacola with a cargo of fertilizers bound for
Andalusia, Ala. Up to this date
the vessel has gone no further than Murder
Creek Bends, about three miles this side of
Brewton, and because of low water partly,
and mainly because of the remarkable prev
alence of snags at that point. Capt. James
Smith, the proprietor of the Ella D.. says
he made two unsuccessful attempts to get the
steamer through, and she now lies at
the Bends awaiting a sufficient depth of
water to enable her to pass over the snags,
which are sticking up as thickly as the
fingers on mans hand. Capt. Smith says
he is reliably informed that the mode of re-
moving the distractions in the stream is
calculated rather to engender worse con-
dition than to render the navigation of the
stream possible-the worlnen throwing the
snags taken out of the river at one point
into the river at another. The snag boat is
lying idle at Brewton, and this notwith-
standing the fact that there are So, 900 avail
able for the rivers Improvement
At Cedar Keys Wednesday night a negro
by the name OF Malty Muttonjoy, about 80
years of age, was shot and killed by white
man named I. W. Davis. 1t seems that on
the daily arrival of the Jacksonville train a
large number of negro men and boys have
been accustomed to crowd upon the station
platform and enter the cars before the pas
sengers have left. This has caused the con-
ductor much annoyance. Last evening
Muttonjoy and three or four others boarded
the train before it had stopped, and
were ordered off by the conductor
The others left, but Muttonjoy stood
on the lower step and dared the conductor
to touch him Mr.. Davis, who has
charge of the trestle gang at work on the
road here, made some remark, when the
negro, who was of a quarrelsome DISPOSE
ton, uttered some insulting words and
stepped up as ii to make an attack, when
Davis struck him. Muttonjoy then re-
treated, seized a cart stake and struck Davis
two severe blows, one on the arm and the
other over the eye Davis then drew his
pistol and fired three shots, one taking effect
in the mouth and causing death almost i'm
mediately. Davis gave himself up to the
Justice of the Peace, who bound him over
to appear before the November court.
The Cotton States, a newspaper published
at Gainesville, and edited by Col j. NJ
Arrow, now of Jacksonville, was the only
paper published east and south of the SUI
vance line of all the papers existing at the
beginning of the war, that was regularly
published from the beginning to the end of
the war. Col. Arrow thinks that he has a
complete file of it, which contains all i'm
portant events happening in this section
covering that period, and historical
facts not to be found elsewhere In
addition to editorial and news matter, it
contains the productions of many of the
leading men of those eventful times The
Cotton States Office was twice in the hands
of the Federal troops during the war, and